Ever wondered what it would be like to experience a Jane Austen novel? Jane Austen's "Emma" is a larp adaptation of the novel of the same name. A gentle, reserved romantic comedy for 8 - 11 players and one GM. Best played outside, with strawberries.

As played at:
Hydra Wellington 2018, NZ
Gencon Indianapolis 2018, USA
Phoenix Christchurch 2018, NZ
Be-Con Chicago 2018, USA
* * * * *The story so far...It is a fine day for larceny upon the high seas indeed! The Devil hisself must have blest the crew of the Black Kraken with his own luck—how else could it be... [click here for more]

JUGGERNAUT is card-based live-action roleplaying game about free will for 4-6 players from the creators of FIASCO and CAROLINA DEATH CRAWL.
It is July third, 1950. The Korean War is eight days old. National Security Council Report 68 is sitting on Harry Truman’s desk, a grim outline of the Cold War that is to enfold the world for the... [click here for more]

In Residency is a short, live action American Freeform game for 10-16 players about the relationship between trauma and art, and about the weird atmosphere of artists’ colonies, where intensely personal daily work rubs up against a claustrophobic cocktail-party environment at night. Brython: it’s where we’re all alone together.
For residents at this elite artists’... [click here for more]

Pocket Things is a silly little storygame for people with pockets, and things in them.
Guest appearances by Chuck Norris possible, but not guaranteed.
You are encouraged to pay whatever amount you wish for your copy of Pocket Things. Who can put a price on fun, am I right? Yeah. But let's be real here. If you choose to pay more than fifty... [click here for more]

The Mythos Society Guide to New England is an expansive universal sourcebook by veteran game designer Clint Staples that can be used to enhance any horror, mystery, or adventure roleplaying scenarios set in New England. It is particularly suited for Mythos-oriented games like Call of Cthulhu and Cthulhu Live. It is also a fun and provocative read... [click here for more]

A multigenerational hell. The Barbatos family has a deep dark secret, and it’s not the embezzling, the murders, the incest, or the rampant narcissism. Each generation, the cousins gather to decide which of them will sell their soul for the good of the family. It isn’t just figurative language about the evils of money perverting the souls of those who do what it takes to make it. No, the... [click here for more]

Der Leere Blick is a German-language version of the Sight Unseen script for the Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition live-action role-playing game and designed for use with the rules for it. This script can also be easily adapted for use with other horror and Mythos-oriented games, such as Call of Cthulhu. It ideal for a LARP party... [click here for more]

Rosette Diceless is an approach to roleplaying that focuses on collaborative storytelling and consent-based conflict resolution. You can roleplay everything from complex combat to intricate political debate with the same set of simple, quick-playing rules that work equally well for a tabletop game as they do for a LARP.
With Rosette Diceless you can take part in games with many... [click here for more]

When you’re in high school, everything seems like a life-or-death situation. Getting a D on the pre-calc test or not being asked to prom by the guy you’ve been crushing on for years is the end of the world. Many adults look back on those years with fondness and a bit of embarrassment, forgetting that the adolescent traumas they endured shaped much of their approach to the world. But what... [click here for more]

The Lizenby and Balrose families cordially invite you to a freeform LARP about the first marriage between a human and a ghost in recorded history. Black tie preferred, but costuming not necessary. Please, no jokes about "til death do us part".Wight Wedding is a dramatic-comedic freeform LARP for up to 25 players about family friction, death, and love. ... [click here for more]

Most problem roommates leave piles of dishes in the sink, eat your leftovers, and are late with the rent. These roommates make the walls bleed, possess the neighbors and attract exorcists. And when you're the new ghost in a co-haunting situation, you have no idea what to expect.
Dead Reckoning is a GM-less freeform larp about ghost roommates having their monthly Haunt Meeting. It’s... [click here for more]

Yesterday, gods ceased to walk the earth. Today, Elysium’s top scientists are unveiling their greatest triumph: a machine that allows you to create your idealized self. This American Freeform LARP was written in 2012 and is an exploration of progress versus tradition. ... [click here for more]

Drowning Moon Studios: Mixtape is a compilation of 10 short freeform larps inspired by music, 7 of which are exclusive to this collection. They range in tone from the tongue-in-cheek supervillain camp of Everybody Wants to Rule The World, to the emotionally challenging intimate family drama of Your Arms Out of Water. Most require minimal props and can be played in a variety... [click here for more]

ViewScream is a live-action game designed for play using video-chat software like Skype or Google Hangouts.
Four officers (Medical, Bridge, Weapons, and Engineering) find themselves aboard a damaged starship, in great peril. They're cut off from each other, and can only communicate by using viewscreens throughout the ship.
Will you turn on your shipmates? Will you work with... [click here for more]

Welcome to the second Indie+ Anthology, released just in time for Halloween weekend! Enjoy eleven differnet short horror pieces from the Indie+ staff, special guests, and friends of Indie+ to celebrate the creation of our Indie+ Community page on G+!
Indie+ is a community of role-playing game fans, some tabletop, some LARP, too. What’s the indie part? From the very beginning... [click here for more]

Different times call for different gamesHave you ever wondered...
how the children from Narnia coped back in the real world?
what it's like to voyage into a black hole?
how dystopias are created, and destroyed?
what you would sacrifice to protect your family?
what heroes talk about on the eve of a life-altering battle?
how to defend your village, when your... [click here for more]

Looking at the world through a feminist lens reveals absurd, tragic, and fascinating situations.
Written by feminists from eleven different countries, #Feminism offers bite-sized takes on contemporary feminist issues. Each of the 34 nano-games in this collection requires between three and five participants, simple (if any) props, and up to an hour of play time.
The games range from silly to serious,... [click here for more]

The Pitch A very normal family of murderous cannibals invites a future meal over for dinner and conversation, but things may not go as planned.
Welcome Guests
is a live-action game for five to six players that you can play around the kitchen table in about two hours. One player will act as Facilitator, who prepares the materials, explains the rules, and then plays... [click here for more]

The Pitch In the wake of marketing snafus, payroll delays, sudden losses of centrifugal coordination, and a few losses in Sapient Resources this quarter, it's time for the annual corporate retreat. Try to get along.
Teambuilding Across the Galaxy
The Fobolex Interstellar Corporate Retreat is a party game for 20-50 participants and a pair of facilitators. It takes... [click here for more]

The Pitch
Do YOU have what it takes to handle the PHONES OF GLORY?
Calling your representatives can be intimidating, tedious or both. This game turns civic engagement into something both useful and ridiculous. Instead of making calls in private, invite some friends over and make them together, before a panel of judges, hoping for the glory that comes with the best executed... [click here for more]

... After hair-raising adventures, a spot of cross-dressing, and several degrees in Biology and Morphic Resonances, you have finally carved out a space – the small settlement of Bellecoeur – where You Can Have the One You Want with All Your Heart and Nobody Gets to Say Anything...
In the late 19th century Mad Science and Wonders of Nature abound in Europe. There are two powerful... [click here for more]

Ghost Court is a live-action party game about spectral justice in a small claims court. It is perfectly suited for a large group, but you can play with as few as six players.
What you are about to witness is real. The participants are not actors. They are the living people and ghosts who have already either filed suit or been served a summons to appear in municipal court.... [click here for more]

A compendium of ground-breaking, romance themed role playing games. Revised versions of Breaking the Ice, Shooting the Moon and Under my Skin in one volume. Plus over 30 new hacks and rules variants of the games.
About the Games:Breaking the Ice, see if two characters fall in love and stay together after their first three dates... [click here for more]

Do you want to be a better roleplayer or GM? Do you want to encourage spontaneous creativity in your gaming group? Do you want to create dynamic, compelling characters?
If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” Improv for Gamers is for you! Based on the popular workshop series, this book provides a selection of fun and easy improv exercises designed to take... [click here for more]

The first Indie+ Anthology is a collection of short roleplaying games and resources, released as a thank you to all our loyal subscribers who check out our videos each month during a subscriber drive to bring in new folks to our community. Thanks to all of your efforts, we added over 300 subscribers in 2014! ... [click here for more]

Brass & Steel is a hybrid live action/tabletop roleplaying game, with rules equally suited to both. It is an alternate 1905, where the mystically-fueled industrial revolution has produced amazing feats of technology and the sun never sets on the mighty British Empire. Clockwork marvels face off against against ancient sorcery. Airships cruise the skies. Lucid dreamers explore the mysteries... [click here for more]

In many children's books transportation to magical lands often happens through the most mundane objects: fireplaces, grandfather clocks, cupboards, rabbit holes and, of course, wardrobes. In The Door in the Wardrobe, a freeform larp for 3 to 7 players, characters discover a magical doorway to a fantastic land. They are tempted to travel there, but learn that doing so comes with a few strings... [click here for more]

LARP WORLD MAGAZINE - Volume 2, Issue 1 2016Information, tips, tricks, interviews, and in-depth coverage of many different aspects of live action role playing around the world (in English). ... [click here for more]

THE SENATE GAME is a short-form LARP in which your group play out the fall of the Roman Republic.
It was originally tested on a Year 12 Classical Civilisation Class, and used as part of the A-Level Classical Civilisation (Imperial Image) Curriculum, but you don't have to be studying an exam in Roman history to enter a world of ambition, betrayal, and war. ... [click here for more]

The king is dead... Finally!
Through a skillful combination of live-action intrigue and strategic use of resources, you might become the next ruler of the land. Long Live the King is a live-action strategy game for 5 or more players.
Long Live the King is a dynamic game that marries the diabolical treachery and scheming of the best strategic board and card games with the pomp and... [click here for more]

Small Stories is a resource for actors and writers alike. With hundreds of prompts mixed and matched dynamically, Small Stories is great as a party game or as a fun way to spark your creativity!
As a party game or improv resource, Small Stories is an easy to play game for a small group. Use playing cards to randomly generate a scene for the players to act out in 1, 3, and 5 minute rounds. Earn points... [click here for more]

All of the Adventure, None of the Dice!"Probably hands down one of the best diceless systems on the market. Excellent support for any questions you may have about the game... I would recommend Active Exploits for anyone who is curious about running a diceless game but yet still wants some sort of rules for keeping balance and control in the game. A must have for everyone's desktop."... [click here for more]

You are the cast and crew of TV's hottest new children's show: Super Sparkle Action Princess GX! It's got a ballerina turned action heroine, evil cyborg aliens, sparkly transformation scenes and a lot of riding around on hover bikes. The kiddies love that stuff. But today there's a problem: your footage for this week's episode disappeared in a freak giraffe incident, the script is... [click here for more]

Live Role-Playing Chess is one of the most twisted lurches in the evolution of chess to date. In this live-action role-playing game, sixteen (or more) players stand up to take part in a gala fantasy battle between the powers of Good and Evil. Rules for combat, magic, and death add a fair, fun, fast-paced (and alliterative) edge to the dreary old classic strategy game. A destructively good time, laced... [click here for more]

Remodel, an American Freeform, live-action role playing game. Four women face mid-life changes and share their joys and pains as they help one friend remodel her house as they remodel their lives.
Live action role playing game
Nordic and American freeform meta-techniques
Deep emotional play
Feminist, queer-friendly, inclusive
In the tradition of Under my Skin, Robin's Friends, Doubt and The... [click here for more]

"The sun beats down on the arena and a lively fanfare plays, which signals the beginning of the contest. Two Knights stare each other down through the slits in the visors of their helmets as their horses impatiently stomp the ground. Everyone in attendance eagerly awaits the start of the Joust. The King rises and raises his goblet of wine ready to address the crowd..."
An easy to... [click here for more]

A true Multiplatform Role Playing Game
The Adventures of this table top game can be linked to the larger Meleeworld. This system is designed to be able to play interchangebly with the Sports Reenactment LARP, Melee: Culture Crafts Combat. The adventures can go from live action to table top and back seamlessly.
Stranded out of time
Forbidden to leave
Cursed with immortality
Welcome to the... [click here for more]

Boats Against the Current - An introspective live action roleplaying scenario for 9 players, set in the 1920s
New York, in the throes of the roaring twenties. An age of defiance, rebellion, blazing forth into a bright future in a whirl of liquor and dancing.
Recently, an eccentric but much talked about millionaire socialite has died under very questionable circumstances. Speculation abounds... [click here for more]

Your ancestors escaped earth and colonized this planet about 200 years ago. Now it is you and your skills against an alien planet. Merchant between islands, explore new islands, build your own island kingdom, conquer your enemies. ... [click here for more]

We Are In Line At Gaming Convention: A Convention For Gaming.
We are playing a game that has been played for millions of years. We are playing this game because we are waiting in line to check in at Gaming Convention: A Convention For Gaming. Some of us have died in line. Others have always been in line since before lines existed, waiting eternally. Additional others only just now have entered the... [click here for more]

THE FROST PAPERS"The Ouija Board of Roleplaying Games" - Occult Victorian parlor games for those who love paranormal investigation and ghost stories.
There is nothing quite like them. The Papers combine elements of live action roleplaying games, mass hypnosis as performed by stage magicians, the guided meditations of Tibetan monks, and séances... [click here for more]

Scenario Teaser
1898, New York City. Workers take to the streets to fight for their rights. Gangs vie for territory while corruption runs rampant among police and politicians. Newspapers indulge in yellow journalism as the Spanish-American War rages on in the Caribbean. Blair Sheridan, owner of Elmwood Cotton Mill, holds a public meeting to ease concerns after part of the Mill collapsed... [click here for more]

Trump/Putin is a game of political satire. It is a two-player roleplaying game about the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Players take on the roles of these two powerful presidents, then play out three important scenes in their relationship, starting in 1983 and ending in 2016.
This 11-page, full-color game is loosely based on Josh T. Jordan's previous two-player larp, The... [click here for more]

“Poe's law is an Internet adage which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extreme views will be mistaken by some readers or viewers for sincere expressions of the parodied views.”- Wikipedia
Gather 2+ friends and join the ranks of those online who clearly can't be serious. Create over the top personas, find a forum... [click here for more]

In the massive dungeon network of Invidius the Indifferently Coloured, adventurers are questing - and dying - as per normal. In Break Room 3: Basilisk Green, however, things aren't so rosy. The Sewage Crawlers' Union is complaining they get no respect and agitating on their lunch break; the kobold tribes and skeleton archers are fighting over the arrow-supplies; a young... [click here for more]

In this short freeform larp, a group of characters have gathered for the wake of a dead friend or relative. Each character's relationship to the deceased is complicated and occasionally fraught. In remembering them, the guests paint a picture of the deceased as a complex and occasionally harmful individual--someone capable of bringing both great joy and great sorrow to the people who loved them. Wake... [click here for more]

Gaudete Sunday is a lighthearted, romantic game about social pressure, manners, mischief, and the possibilities of the Christmas Holiday, for two facilitators and at least five players. Every year on Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, the eponymous matron of Miss Clavier’s School opens her doors to Old World nobility and American mercantile barons alike, to show off the creme de la... [click here for more]

Radio Karma is a short American Freeform larp for 6 to 20 players, inspired by those magical instances when it seems the universe itself is sending you a message by playing that one perfect song at that one perfect moment. Characters' destinies will be shaped by the game’s Playlist, and choices they make will be directly influenced by the deep emotional impact that only music... [click here for more]

Non-indigenous people desperately want spirit animals. You may have heard a friend of yours call something their "spirit animal", be it a gif, a video, or a big mood. While there is some evidence for totemic or familiar spirits in European cultures, this is rarely what they are referring to.
White Girl Wasted is a two-hour comedy LARP about white people getting wasted and going on an astral... [click here for more]

A terrible thing has happened in this village. Someone must be to blame.
Dreaming the Devil is an intense existential LARP about a 16th century witch trial in rural Italy.
I can say, for certain, that your LARP Dreaming the Devil changed the way I think about torture and pain mechanics in gaming forever. -- Jacqueline Bryk, Damocles Thread Development
The most intense game I've... [click here for more]